Important Notice

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week will be held next week. Some
truckers might like getting an "atta boy" or "atta girl" (commendation)
in whatever form it
comes.

We keenly remember
the trucker appreciation events held
by the long-haul and regional trucking companies for which we drove --
and knew full well that the vast majority of their drivers would never
be able to participate.

We're not a trucking company, but we don't want
to be like that. We're serious about helping professional truck drivers
save money -- no matter where in the world you are or what kind of
truck you drive.

We do our
best to show professional truck drivers worldwide -- all year -- that
we
appreciate you and your hard work in transporting freight around the
world. If there's a way that we can better meet your needs in helping
you to save money as a trucker, please contact
us. Thanks.

Truckers' Savings Blog Posts Now
Available Another
Way

The first of our planned helps for greater flexibility for our readers
is now in place. Instead of expecting readers to either visit our blog
page or subscribe to our XML
news feed, we now offer an email
subscribe
to blog option, so that anyone who wants our blog posts
in a daily summary by email can get them.

Get a Tip, Share a Tip

Truck-Drivers-Money-Saving-Tips.com is the place to "Get and share
great
money saving tips for truck drivers." If you "get" a truck drivers
money saving tip on our site, then please be so kind as to "share" one
based
on
your own trucking experience. Thanks for
helping other professional truck drivers
around the world save money.

What damage, if
any, could happen to trucks by using "laundered" fuel?

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/18OeRRk

Could a trucker's
employment be harmed by drug test fraudsters' actions?

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/18Oeq9C

If the semi driver
in back didn't brake, why didn't he/she? Now 7 are dead.

Contributing article: http://nbcnews.to/12cIgU7

What percentage of
drivers were glancing in mirrors versus being distracted?

Quote from article: "According to Dr. Gregory M.
Fitch,
senior
research
associate in the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at VTTI, 78% of
crashes involve a driver not looking forward when the vehicle in front
first applies its brakes."

Source: http://bit.ly/16hMpqy

What do you do,
trucker, to avoid "Sitting Disease"?

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/14BKd9y

Are plastic pistons
really as durable and cost-effectiive as steel and aluminum truck
components?

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/16GEwKd

Submit a product review: http://bit.ly/4N0Siw

Do you agree with 6
commenters that NSC ruling on accident was wrong and preventable?

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/19orFlI

Why didn't this
trucker know about Canadian gun laws before he went in? Very expensive
lesson!

Contributing article: http://bit.ly/139RK57

Why would a trucker
want to use a cruise control in inclement weather?

This sitemap for trucks lists the links to all pages on
our
site that
are categorized for trucks or commercial motor vehicles driven by
professional truck drivers.

Earn More,
Save More

The bad news for truckers' income continues to come in:

A June 11, 2013 article
stated that one aspect of the new
Hours of Service regulation is "a 15% reduction in the average maximum
allowable hours of work"; and

A September 5, 2013 article
cited the research from ATRI (American Transportation Research
Institute) that the "Cost of trucking fell in 2012 due to driver pay
decrease," specifically:
"Driver wages decreased 4.3 cents a mile in 2012... while their
benefits fell 3.5 cents."

In addition, the FMCSA's Compliance,
Safety, Accountability
(CSA)
program assigned a "Violation Severity Weight"
for all
of the violations in the Carrier Safety Measurement System (CSMS),
points of which go against a trucker's record and affect his or her employability.

All of these factors -- plus the fact that truckers
income is linear and not leveraged -- point to the need
for truckers to have a side business so as to have a second
income.